Bike Hire for Ace Race QEP

For the 3rd Race of 2009 we will be returning for the 2nd year to Hampshire's biggest country park... the area boasts over 20 miles of trails for walkers, cyclists and horse riders... Butser Hill National Nature Reserve and the highest point on the South Downs. 1,400 acres of open access woodland and down land within the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.  Not to mention red hot adventure racing action. Whatever your ability or level, this is going to be a great adventure event.

Congratulations to all competitors who took part and completed the 2nd Race in the 2009 ACE RACE Series.  It was a wet n’ dry action packed day and much fun was had by all taking part, with Challenge A, the Bike/Swim across the pond, winning the prize of the favourite part of the course – five riders managed to clear it without a total dunking!

Off Vicarage Road, Bagshot, Berkshire (SU 902635)
... 3 miles NE of Camberley as the crow flies!

Get ready to ‘ace…it’s under a week and counting now to the 2nd of 2009’s ACE Races’ 1 day series coming up on 11th July at Bracknell Forest. Here is some pre-event info to get you in the groove for a superb day out in the woods of the Crown Estate!

Into the gloriously sunny and stormy summer of 2009, we offer you ACE Race at Bracknell – sometimes called Swinley Forest, the second of three stunning venues from which to enjoy the UK’s original adventure races. Since 1996 ACE Races have been running these fun, affordable 5 hour events at the best adventure spots in the South East of England, and the 2009 Series has already started up with that in mind, to deliver you a hearty dose of Adventure, Challenge and Endurance.

Racers....Ace Racers!

Last Saturday ACE race was a tremendous day of action, with a staggering array of route choices and frenetic in-and-out activity to collect all the checkpoints in an optimal matter. Though optimal was elusive this weekend, with many people reporting navigational howlers – it’s an intricate place that takes no prisoners in the competition. But hey, what a beautiful place to get lost!

Welcome to the first event in the ACE Race Adventure Series 2009, on 09 May 2009 at glorious Pippingford Park.  We have a superb adventure race lined up for you this Spring in one of our favourite ACE Races venues.  Think ancient forest, open heathland, hidden trails and military-style obstacles thrown in for good measure! This is one action-packed venue and we will unleash it all for you on the 9th. You will join over 250 participants on this exciting dash around the forest.

Spring has sprung and next month sees the first of our 2009 events unfolding at glorious Ashdown Forest on 9th May. The event promises to be jam packed full of the usual hearty dose of Adventure, Challenge and Endurance in a favourite ACE Races location. There is still time to get your entry into this 1st event; entries close on Wednesday 6th May and it’s proving mighty popular so far with over 200 of you enlisted for the adventure.

Hello ACE Racers,

Welcome to the onset of glorious spring and to the approach of ACE Races 2009. We offer you 3 fabulous events at three stunning venues from which to enjoy the UK’s original adventure races. Since 1996 ACE Races have been running these fun, affordable 5 hour events at the best adventure spots in the South East of England, and the 2009 Series promises to take them all that step further in seeking to deliver you a hearty dose of Adventure, Challenge and Endurance.

Now that the year is drawing to a close it’s worth reflecting back on 2008 and looking ahead to 2009. Consider this, as we go into our 13th year of adventure events: ACE Races has nurtured nearly 6500 adventure racers and has travelled a long way in this time; many of those that started with a 1 Day ACE race have gone on to become champions and ambassadors for the sport far and wide. 2009 looks to be a promising year for adventure racing with ACE Races continuing to provide “Adventure,” “Challenge” and “Endurance” in an exciting and fast-paced 1 day adventure race format.

After a significant start event with the Dirty Weekend concept in the Scottish Borders in July 2008, the Lake District, Cumbria and Grizedale Forest Centre provided the venue for the second instalment of this adventurous collective of Mountain Bike event (Polaris Challenge), Adventure Race (ACE Race) and 12K Trail Run (Dirty Dozen). 

We’ll be seeing you soon and here are some VERY IMPORTANT MATTERS to observe and know before you leave home..

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On friday evening, if registering only please head for the lower car park, register, then leave again within an hour

The weather of late has been testing our resolve to go ahead with this event, but only wrt the Car Parking situation. The events themselves are in fine shape, and the courses are being rigged day and night in these week days. Peter Strong and Paul Noble are enduring some ‘interesting weather’ and we’d hate for that to go unappreciated.

Deep in the forest an event venue is stirring. Grizedale Forest Park, the Forestry Commission and the Dirty Weekend Team have been grooming a field ready for your arrival. This will be alongside existing facilities at the Grizedale Centre. With added Wilf’s, retail therapy and refreshments what more could you want from an adventure race…..other than some amazing autumnal outdoors action of course. You just need to navigate to Grizedale grid ref 335943.

Another big dirty one approaches and the scene is set at the gnarly ‘stadium of adventure’ that is Grizedale in the Lake District, Cumbria. With three events rubbing against each other and a few TV cameras and public on the course in this busy centre, your efforts will not go unnoticed. Here is a status report;

We are looking forward to showing you around this exciting new location. Hampshire's biggest country park... 20 miles of trails for walkers, cyclists and horse riders... Butser Hill National Nature Reserve and the highest point on the South Downs. 1,400 acres of open access woodland and downland within the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Not to mention red hot adventure racing action. Whatever your level, this is going to be a great adventure event; rest assured we will have liberated the very best of the area for the course.

Fresh from July’s superb inaugural Dirty Weekend in the Scottish Borders and the rave reviews we have received from last month’s Bracknell 1 day event we thought we would just let you know a little more about the NEW Dirty Weekend adventure event taking place this 4/5 October at Grizedale in the Southern Lake District and the final 1 day event of the summer, this 30th August in the South Downs – a NEW venue for ACE Racing.

Due to challenges beyond our control - weather conditions - we have had to change the start location of this weekend’s Ace Race in Bracknell.

The new location is less than 2 miles from the original starting location and is now based at the Collingwood College in Bagshot. 

Get ready to ‘ace…it’s a week and counting to the 2nd of the ACE races 1 day series coming up on 12th July at Bracknell Forest. Here is some pre-event info to get you in the groove for a superb day out in the woods of the glorious Crown Estate!

Ace Race Dirty Weekend entries will close on Friday 4th July at 1200.

We have a bike hire available for the Bracknell Ace Racers. The company is Wellington Trek and they are based at the Look out approx 5 miles away by road and less than 1 mile but tracks through the park.

Welcome to the first event in the ACE Race Adventure Series 2008, on 10 May 2008 at glorious Pippingford Park.  We have a superb adventure race lined up for you this Spring in one of our favourite ACE Races venues. Think ancient forest, open heathland, hidden trails and military-style obstacles thrown in for good measure! This is one action-packed venue and we will unleash it all for you on the 10th.

Hello ACE Racers,

We hope you are enjoying the crisp mornings and the lovely evening light of winter. It’s the end of February already and before we know it, the Spring will be with us and the first ACE Race adventure events will be here. Here are our fresh plans - the ACE Race “Dirty Weekend”.

Welcome to a year of adventure, with the ACE Race 1-day Series for 2008.

The man at the helm for the 1-day Series is Scott Alexander - even if you don't know Scott by name then you're bound to have seen him at previous adventure events grafting away with logistics and helping on the course. Scott knows these events inside out and will be tweaking a few more things to make them even more rewarding and building on the very popular upgrades-in-adventure from the '07 Series. Thank you for your responses to the questionnaire on the website - this is still open for feedback here . And here is the news;

Hello ACE Racers,

We hope your pumpkins were tasty and that the Guy went up with a bang; now Christmas is looming and soon it will be 2008 - and time for another ACE Race adventure events season.
Thanks to all those who have sent in your feedback via our questionnaire on the website - for others that may not have seen the questions, they are on the News page at www.aceraces.com. All the info gleaned is helping us to put together the very best events we can for 2008. We thought we would take this opportunity to let you know a little of our plans for the 2008 season...